The Williamson County Historical Society held a membership meeting on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at the museum/library located at 105 S. Van Buren St. in Marion.
During the meeting, society president Sam Lattuca discussed projects undertaken at the museum & library since the last meeting, new items accessioned to the museum, upcoming projects and the state of the museum. He also illustrated the use of artificial intelligence to create movement when applied to historic photos.
Continue readingThe Williamson County Historical Society will be holding its first membership meeting for the year on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 2:00 P.M. at the museum, 105 S. Van Buren St. in Marion.
We will go over the state of the museum, ongoing projects and reviewing some of the latest accessions to the museum. In addition, the meetings program will be conducted by Sam Lattuca and Charla Murphy and will cover the origins of our current property survey systems used in the U.S. and how they work and evolved. Also covered will be reading property descriptions and working with deeds.
All members and non-members are welcome to attend.
Charles Robert “Bob” Jackson age 89, of Marion a teacher, coach, artist and historian, passed away at 8:47 am on Friday, December 20, 2024, at his home with his family on the same small farm where he grew up.
Bob was born in Williamson County on April 14th, 1935, the son of Guy and Birdie Cowsert Jackson. He married Phyllis Sue Kobler on August 20, 1960. They were married for 58 years until her death on May 30, 2019.
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Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois, Troop 8077 visited the Williamson County Historical Society museum/library for a tour on Sunday, November 2, 2024. The tour was conducted by our society curator/coordinator Sharon Vansaghi.
680 new references have been added to our Master Local History Index. The references were pulled from Sneed’s “Ghost Towns of Southern Illinois” and contain only references to Williamson County ghost towns and locations. Within the index are references to people, places, events, churches, schools, businesses, government, and indigenous natives.